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SEVENDUST’s ‘Black Out The Sun’ Cracks U.S. Top 20

SEVENDUST‘s ninth studio album, “Black Out The Sun”, sold 27,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 18 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD, which arrived in stores on March 26 via the band’s 7Bros. Records in conjunction with ADA Label Services, was recorded at Architekt Music studios in Butler, New Jersey with engineer Mike Ferretti.

SEVENDUST‘s previous album, 2010’s “Cold Day Memory”, sold around 27,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to enter the chat at No. 12.

The band’s 2008 effort, “Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow”, opened with 25,000 units to land at No. 19.

SEVENDUST drummer Morgan Rose told Billboard.com that the song “Decay” actually came from a riff left over from the “Cold Ray Memory” sessions.

“We were starting to get burnt and we didn’t want to push it,” Rose recalled. “So we had this riff, and we said, ‘Let’s jam it and see if anything comes of it.’ And before you know it, it became a song that ends up on the record, and everybody listens to it and they end up picking that as the single, which was pretty cool.”

The song “Murder Bar” was reportedly inspired by a Butler, New Jersey bar across from the hotel where SEVENDUST was staying while recording the new CD. Rumor had it the place was popular with many of New Jersey’s murderers.

“It’s a basic SEVENDUST record,” guitarist Clint Lowery recently told “Source Of The Sound With Wendy Campbell”. “There’s nothing, like, too completely different than anything we’ve done before. It’s got a darker vibe to it. We’ve got a good amount of the programming element in there. It’s a lot of what we do — it’s heavy and it’s got its melodic element in it. So if you’re a SEVENDUST fan, it’s more along the lines of the second and third records we did — it’s kind of like that. It’s got a couple of throwback vibes to it. ‘Animosity’ and ‘Home’ [1999], if I can put those two records together, it would [sound similar to the new CD].”